People Skills

Session Hybrid Work Strategies

The Future of Work: How Flexibility Unlocks Potential for People and Organizations

Tuesday Dec 6 / 12:30PM PST

The last two years created a massive discontinuity in how we work, and now the debate rages: are we going back to the way things were, or investing to move forward?

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Brian Elliott

Executive Leader, Future Forum & SVP @Slack | Author, How the Future Works

Session Staff Plus Engineering

The Secret to Finding Impactful Projects to Land a Staff-Plus Engineer Role

Wednesday Nov 30 / 10:30AM PST

So, you want to be a Staff-Plus Engineer at your organization. Are you one of a hundred engineers vying for that big new shiny project to get you there?

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Akhilesh Gupta

Principal Software Engineer @LinkedIn

Session Staff Plus Engineering

How Community Engagement Can Boost Your Staff-Plus Career

Wednesday Nov 30 / 11:40AM PST

How does someone become a successful Staff-Plus Engineer? It is probably a mix of technical skills and having the right opportunities. But what if you don't have access to the best opportunities or the right contacts?

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Eder Ignatowicz

Principal Software Engineer and Architect @RedHat

Session Engineering Culture

Recipes for Blameless Accountability

Monday Dec 5 / 10:10AM PST

 

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Michelle Brush

Engineering Manager SRE @Google

Session Engineering Culture

Reckoning with the Harm We Do: In Search of Restorative Just Culture in Software and Web Operations

Monday Dec 5 / 12:30PM PST

“Psychological Safety” and “Blameless” postmortems are not enough. We’ve heard that we need a “Just Culture” but does that matter if your people are “stressed, exhausted, depleted, spent, drained”?

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Jessica DeVita

Sr. Software Engineering Manager - SRE @Microsoft

Session Engineering Culture

Generous, High Fidelity Communication Is the Key to a Safe, Effective Team

Monday Dec 5 / 09:00AM PST

A team's ability to communicate effectively and disagree productively is directly related to its resilience towards incidents and interruptions.

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Denise Yu

Engineering Manager and Rubyist

Session Hybrid Work Strategies

Building High-Trust and High-Performing Teams at Shopify in a Remote World

Tuesday Dec 6 / 10:10AM PST

The switch to remote-only and hybrid has unlocked so much potential for the world and our companies: we can hire the best, people can live where they want, and we can form teams based on skills and interest instead of location.

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Jesse McGinnis

Senior Development Manager @Shopify and Author of Embracing Uncertainty

Session Hybrid Work Strategies

Leveraging Hybrid One-on-Ones for Better Connections

Tuesday Dec 6 / 11:20AM PST

One of the most difficult challenges to overcome in a hybrid or remote work environment is the lack of social connection between team members—and worse, the often insufficient time that managers spend individually with their reports.

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Alexandra Sunderland

Senior Engineering Manager @fellowapp

Session Hybrid Work Strategies

Successful Leadership in Hybrid Environments: Powerful Principles, Practical Steps, and Poignant Examples

Tuesday Dec 6 / 09:00AM PST

Being a technical- or people leader in a hybrid work environment can be extra challenging: While on paper, it may look like hybrid work combines the “best of both [remote and co-located] worlds”, the reality often looks drastically different: 

Speaker image - Lena Reinhard

Lena Reinhard

Founder, Coach, Consultant @Lena Reinhard Leadership Coaching & Consulting